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Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.

Norman Schwarzkopf

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don’t apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.
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Apologize Fish Hunt
A very great man once said you should love your enemies and that’s not a bad piece of advice. We can love them but, by God, that doesn’t mean we’re not going to fight them.
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Advice Enemy God Love
It is God’s job to forgive Osama Bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting.
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God Job War
It’s the sense of duty that keeps you going sometimes when things get very, very rough. Somebody’s got to do it. And if you don’t, who will?
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Duty Rough
I don’t consider myself dovish and I certainly don’t consider myself hawkish. Maybe I would describe myself as owlishthat is wise enough to understand that you want to do everything possible to avoid war.
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Want War Wise
I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.
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Cancer Normal Proof
From the time I was twelve years old until I retired last year at the age of fifty-seven, the Army was my life. I loved commanding soldiers and being around people who had made a serious commitment to serve their country.
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Command Commitment Country Love Retirement Soldier Time
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.
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Look Thinking Want
Ninety-nine percent of leadership failures are failures of character.
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Character Failure Leadership
I believe that forgiving them is god’s function, our job is to arrange the meeting.
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Arrangement Believe Function Job Military
I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.
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Leadership Lucky Successful War
I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.
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Chaotic Circumstance Pride
You can’t help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.
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Help Relationship Success
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Business Leadership Positive
Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.
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Enemy Judging Looks
Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.
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Secret Success Sweat Sweet
I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war.
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Absolute Hate War
When placed in command, take charge.
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Charge Command Leadership
An awful lot has been written about my temper.
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Awful Temper
Good generalship is a realization that you’ve got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.
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Accomplishment Loss Mission Realization Trying
Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.
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Great Love People Thinking
To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak – you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.
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Giving Leadership People
Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can’t have both, opt for character.
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Character Leadership Strategy
I’m not a politician. I’d make a lousy politician.
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Lousy Politics
If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed.
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Country Destroy Intention
Choose to win, Get mad, then get over it.
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Military Motivational Win
I’d like to think I’m a caring human being.
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Human Being Personality

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